Political History

“Light at the End of the Tunnel”? The Vietnam War, the Credibility Gap, and the COVID-19 Crisis

by Simon Toner on May 15, 2020

Wartime analogies abound in the fight against COVID-19. In the United States, the Surgeon General warned that the nation faced a “Pearl Harbor moment” and Donald Trump, who declared himself a “wartime president”, has invoked

The Power of the Polls

by David Vessey on April 24, 2017

In response to Theresa May’s announcement of a snap election for June 8, Andrew Marr tweeted, ‘what follows now is

2016 – the end for opinion polls?

by Lucy Bell on December 5, 2016

In 2016, both the British EU referendum and the US Presidential election delivered shock results that defied the wisdom of

Watchdog or Attack Dog? Jeremy Corbyn and the myth of the ‘free press’

by Aaron Ackerley on August 2, 2016

According to a recent study, Jeremy Corbyn has been subjected to sustained abuse by the British press and denied a

Women’s political participation in the age of partial suffrage

by David Thackeray on December 11, 2015

2018 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of women gaining the parliamentary vote for the first time. The 1918 Representation

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Women to the Right: The Ascendancy of Women in Conservative Politics

by Julie Gottlieb on June 11, 2015

It’s a perennial problem. How do we make sense of political women on the Right, especially those strong formidable women who defied stereotypes of the domestic drudge who would never dream of voting otherwise than

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